Cuban Missile Crisis Day by Day: From the Pentagon's "Sensitive Records"

Surface-to-air missile site at La Coloma, Cuba. According to the caption on the photograph, it was taken during a reconnaissance flight on 10 November 1962.

Source: National Archives, Still Pictures Branch, Record Group 342-B, box 1401

Secret Notes by Deputy Secretary Roswell Gilpatric Show Early Interest in Trade of U.S. Jupiter Missiles for Soviet Missile in Cuba, Even a Status Change for Guantanamo, as Basis of a Settlement, Presaging Elements of the the Secret Deal that Helped End the Crisis

Daily Journals, Notes, and Calendars Show President Kennedy Calling the Pentagon to Ensure that Navy Used the Least Aggressive Measures to Track Soviet Submarines in the Caribbean But also Approving Uploading of H-Bombs on Alert Aircraft in Europe

Coast Guard, Not Navy, Made First Stop of a Ship during the Quarantine

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 398

Read today's posting at the National Security Archive website - http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB398/

Posted - October 19, 2012
Edited by William Burr
For more information contact:
William Burr - 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu

Related: New York Times:

Same Cuba Crisis, Different Angles: 50 Years Later